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The number of people executed in India since independence in 1947 is a matter of dispute; official government statistics claim that only 57 people had been executed since independence. However, available information from other sources indicates that the official government figures are false, and the actual number of executions in India may run ...
The 60 former judges adjudicated 208 death penalty cases between them at different points during the period 1975–2016. The study was an attempt to understand judicial thought and adjudicatory processes that govern the administration of the death penalty within India's criminal justice system.
Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice.The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries are listed below.
A woman in India’s southern state of Kerala has been sentenced to death for killing her boyfriend by poisoning him, becoming the youngest and only second woman in the state to be handed capital ...
In March 2023, the Supreme Court of India freed Niranaram Chetanram Chaudhary after he spent 28 years, six months and 23 days in custody, and was freed from Nagpur jail. At the time of conviction, Chaudhary was 12 years and six months. As per Indian laws, death sentence or any sentence more than three years cannot be awarded to a juvenile. [5]
The judge further ordered the state to award a compensation of 17 Lakh rupees(US$ 20,000) to the family of the victim as the crime took place at her place of work. Anirban Das, the Additional District and Sessions Judge in Sealdah noted that this wasn't one of the rarest of the rare cases and didn't award the death penalty to Roy. [65]
The Sharon Raj murder case, also known as the Parassala Sharon Murder Case, [2] occurred in 2022. In this case, Greeshma, a woman, murdered her lover, Sharon Raj, a 23-year-old radiology student, by poisoning him with a pesticide-laced herbal concoction in Parassala , Thiruvananthapuram district. [ 3 ]
Following this, Joy strangulated Ujjwal to death, and then disposed of his body with Shyamali's help. They chopped his body into six pieces with a hacksaw, which they also threw in a pond along with the body. [40] [41] [42] On 9 February 2023, Nikki Yadav was strangled to death with a charging cable by her husband, Sahil Gehlot in Najafgarh, Delhi.